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Suzume – The Classic Story of a Girl and Her Chair

I had the opportunity to go see Suzume in theaters with a couple of really good friends. This is what we thought of it!

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Jun 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Suzume

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Suzume: A Chair and Girl’s Roadtrip

The Theater and Quick Thoughts This latest Makoto Shinkai film finally came out in the United States. I saw it finally on a Friday in the afternoon at…

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Suzume

242: The Chair Company Episode

The Sickos go absolutely nuts over our favorite guy Tim Robinson and his unbelievable new comedy/thriller show The Chair Company. To watch this show is like watching a…

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Don’t @ Me: Six of my Anime Opinions: Pulling up a Chair Edition

It’s Monday which means it is time for this! Welcome back to Don’t @ Me! The place where, like Jason Momoa and his folding chair. I whip it…

Shallow Dives in Anime

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Bleach

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INTERVIEW: SHEN of BLUE CHAIR talks Try Guys

K-Comics Beat interviews Shen about Webcomics, Webtoons, The Try Guys, and so much more. Read all about it!

K-Comics Beat

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Anime’s Glass Ceiling: what keeps women out of the director’s chair?

The popularity of women authors like Itagaki, Takeuchi, Takahashi, and Arakawa led to their work being adapted into similarly successful anime. But most of these anime, if not…

Anime Feminist

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The LIVING CHAIR in Suzume has a FUNNY MEANING😁 | Suzume #shorts

In Makoto Shinkais new film Suzume (jap. Suzume no Tojimari), the living chair Munakata Sōta is a living chair. The chair is acutally inspired by the Pixar Lamp!…

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Suzume

The LIVING CHAIR in Suzume has a FUNNY MEANING😁 | Suzume #shorts

In Makoto Shinkais new film Suzume (jap. Suzume no Tojimari), the living chair Munakata Sōta is a living chair. The chair is acutally inspired by the Pixar Lamp!…

Anime Blues

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Suzume

VG Pulse 413: New Chair Day!!!

This week on VG Pulse, we’re very easily distracted– SQUIRREL! …ahem… We start off with side notes of slow work days during the winter season and of Millennium’s…

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Cripple Punk Motifs in Tank Chair

Tank Chair provides the kind of disabled power fantasy that has previously only existed in the minds of disabled people, and has never been so beautifully realized in…

Anime Feminist

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Spiraken Manga Review Ep 603: Tank Chair

In this episode, Xan dives into the brutal and unique dystopian action of Tank Chair by Manabu Yashiro. This manga features a comatose assassin in a weaponized wheelchair and the sister…

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Chainsaw Man, Dorohedoro

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Humbreaders had me Dancing (in my chair) In The Room.

Today was a day of doing things with my chair. I did a bunch of chair yoga and stretching since I’ve been sitting on my bum listening to…

SussySempai

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10 Rocking Anime Songs from Summer 2022

These awesome anime music tunes will help distract you from the summer heat!

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10 Rocking Anime Songs From Winter 2020

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10 Rocking Anime Songs from Summer 2021

With the summer heat comes a ton of new awesome anime songs to jam to.

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10 Rocking Anime Songs From Spring 2020

While many anime have been postponed this season, that doesn’t mean we’re lacking in awesome anime music. From openings and endings to movie themes and insert songs, here…

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10 Rocking Anime Songs from Fall 2019

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10 Rocking Anime Songs From Summer 2020

While the ongoing pandemic has drastically reduced the amount of anime this season, that doesn’t mean we’re short of awesome anime tunes. Here are the 10 I’ve been…

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Fall 2021

With the falling leaves comes a ton of new awesome anime music!

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Fall 2020

With the new fall anime season comes dozens upon dozens of new anime songs. Here are the 10 I’ve been enjoying most.

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Winter 2021

The weather may be cold but the anime themes this season are hot! Here are my ten favorites.

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Spring 2021

The spring is here and with it comes a ton of new awesome anime music!

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Those Snow White Notes, To Your Eternity, Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-, BACK ARROW, My Hero Academia

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Spring 2022

With the coming of spring comes a ton of awesome anime music!

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10 Rocking Anime Theme Songs from Winter 2022

It’s cold outside. So bundle up and rock out to this season’s awesome anime music!

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E-WIN Gaming Chair Review [4 Best Selling Chairs Tested]

Are the E-Win's gaming chairs worth it? Find out in this article where we reviewed their best-selling chairs after 3 months of use.

Dere★Project

Nov 20, 2023 • Subscribe

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Naoki Urasawa is on YouTube and it’s Rocking my World

Naoki Urasawa is on YouTube, did you know that? Not a random interview or anything, he has his own channel! You should subscribe!

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Jun 7, 2022 • Subscribe

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Rocking Out in History With Inu-Oh Director Masaaki Yuasa

Yuasa excitedly introduced his multi-award nominated movie and its characters with the same energy and fervor as if he were pitching the film from scratch.

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Jan 24, 2023 • Subscribe

Inu-Oh

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Vtuber Events, Anime Announcements, and Musical Acts Rocking Out at Crunchyroll Expo 2022!

With Crunchyroll growing in its share of and prominence in the North American anime industry (case in point: news of CR’s acquisition of Right Stuf dropped during the…

Beneath the Tangles

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Mob Psycho 100, Tower of God

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Bakemono of the Twin Mounds of Rendaino

Tonight's tale uses us the generic term "bakemono" in the title again. However, within the story the original text uses the word kijin—鬼神 meaning oni goddess—to describe her…

Matthew Meyer

Oct 7, 2022 • Subscribe

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Yūrei of the Kirishitans

Tonight's yokai is a yūrei, or simply, a ghost. There are lots of ways to say "ghost" in Japanese. Yūrei literally means "faint spirit," and it is used…

Matthew Meyer

Oct 5, 2023 • Subscribe

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A review of Call of the Night

Here’s an anime I might have missed out on if it hadn’t been for that dumb anime first episode wheel post series I have going. Or maybe not,…

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Call of the Night

The Wonder of A Sign of Affection

This week on The Wonder of Anime, I'm joined by one of my dream guest, Laura Neuzeth. If you're on manga-tok, you absolutely know who she is. Laura…

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A Sign of Affection, Laura

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The Soul of a Story

How do we deal with “products of their time,” stories we love, with their problematic elements that can teach us the wrong message, even when we just want…

ProfessorViral

Jun 8, 2023 • Subscribe

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The Making of a Japanese

Elementary school students eat lunch in a scene from The Making of a Japanese. When the popular Japanese TV program Hajimete no otsukai (My First Errand) debuted on…

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The depths of a niche

The anime fandom is a pretty narrow interest group. The kind of present day late night TV anime that you and I tend to focus on, are an…

Anime September

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Chihayafuru

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The Fall of a Prince

On one of Jiří Trnka's greatest achievements.

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The Story of a Door

I’ve always believed that if a story is able to center around one large theme, and representing it through a simple object, it can achieve wonders. Suzume no…

Anime as a Cup of Tea

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Suzume

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The Loss of a Voice

Today, the passing of Tanaka Atsuko, was announced.Today, I cried.It’s a strange feeling, really…She had a voice that I heard often as a child and even more often…

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A Journey of the Heart – the Places of BokuYaba

When it comes to Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu, all my usual boundaries as a fan go straight out the window.

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The Dangers in My Heart

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Origin of the Surname ‘Nikurube’

Tonight's story is another tale about romance and ghosts, although it's not a horrific one like many that we've seen. Instead, this ghost story sets up an interesting…

MatthewMeyer.net

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Nadia of the Secret Blue Waters: A Gem of a Series!

Greetings, fabulous people of the Internet! Hanime on Anime here, and welcome to the final review of Flashback February! Normally around this time, I’d be doing Character of…

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The Death of the Tsundere | A Retrospective

Check out WebNovel here! https://webnovel.onelink.me/T86n/eugjqey9 #WebNovel #fantasy #system The tsundere is a well-known anime trope, that many people still love to this day. But something happened to it since its…

Lextorias

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Mayoinomono That Was Afraid of the Go’ō of Nigatsudō

Tonight's story features a great word that I haven't heard in other stories: mayoimono! This is another word for ghost, and literally means "lost/wandering thing." I love it.…

Matthew Meyer

Oct 16, 2023 • Subscribe

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Land of the Lustrous: A Reflection of Humanity

This anime needs a season 2! #housekinokuni #landofthelustrous #anime 00:00 The Video 05:31 Spoiler Alert 06:20 The Video Again Thanks for watching! Music In Video: Land of the Lustrous…

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Land of the Lustrous, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

Pick of the Week: A Bevy of Riches

SEAN: This is a ridiculously stacked week for manga fans. Viz has a hot new Jump series in Dandadan, Seven Seas gives yuri fans what they’ve always wanted…

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Shigeru

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Pick of the Week: A Smorgasbord of Manga

MICHELLE: I'm pretty intrigued by The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish, but am gonna choose the fifth and final Marmalade Boy release because I still love this series…

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Marmalade Boy, The Fable

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Manga of the Month: A Sign of Affection

A Sign of Affection by Suu Morishita “Ever since you showed up and widened my world it feels like even my breath is a different color. I want…

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What’s The Point of a Worst Anime of the Year?

Why do we write worst anime posts? And why do we read them?

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Love of the Library: Ascendance of a Bookworm & Magus of the Library

I share my thoughts of the anime Ascendance of a bookworm and the manga Magus of the Library. — Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dadneedstotalkpodcast/support

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Ascendance of a Bookworm

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Ghost of Kiku, Maidservant of Kumamoto Shuri

Tonight's story features an onryō, the most terrifying of Japanese ghosts. Fans of yokai folklore might even think this story sounds somewhat familiar. There's a clear connection to…

MatthewMeyer.net

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